The White Armory

Lludmila did not believe the group gift from The White Armory, so she had to go look for herself. It is every bit as beautiful as its hyperbolic name (Soul Eternal) and comes with tintable pasties, in case it's cut too low for some, which appeals to Lludmila's sense of propriety. The hair, Quaint - White Queen from !SyDS! is a lovely style, but Lludmila didn't care for the blue cast to it - which is a shame because it flows so nicely. The Quaint - Red Queen has the same blue - not sure why that is. The blue doesn't seem as noticeable with this dress. It looks like it's picking up some of the blue-grey color near the hem. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


The Fann's Touch dress, one of three cheapies from Phoenix Rising, provided an opportunity to show off more GaNKeD innovations with this Goldblooded in Iced Onyx set. The skirt to the dress has black feathers cut on the diagonal. The silvery bodice is detailed and understated for an elegant look.


Intentions was not Lludmila's favorite of the three cheapies - she didn't quite understand the white lacy bra thing that showed, but it was on another layer and could be left off. The petticoat is a puffball of white feathers (I'll not share the handstand shot because that would be slutty) that shows better with movement - which I caught just a smidge of here. This also exposed the fact that Lludmila sneaks about shoeless - but the toenails on the new Absentia zombie/undead skin are very nice!


Lludmila loves the contrast of the white brocade on the bodice and the black of the Edo's Onjah dress. It comes with a more slender skirt option, but Lludmila loves poofy! The more slender skirt shows off her "back shelf" too well, which is fine in pants, but the prim skirts don't work as well with it. Lludmila can adjust her posterior for such things, but, she loves the poofy.

Short hair worn with the Fann's Touch dress is Kissy, Kissy from Tiny Bird.
The updo is Adena from Amacci - nice and messy. All colors have been available for this free hair since May.
The long mermaid tresses came from the late, great Hairy Situations that closed its doors in June.

Hunt Bonanza!

Cal told me about this. You may be as tired of going on hunts as I am, but if you go to just this one place, you'll hit at least 7 of them all at once: Before Sleep. There is a gift in every category for men and women: skins, alien skins, furniture, textures, clothing ... I thought these were particularly cute:


Bed with sitting and jumping animations. Hee!


New porch furniture - demonstrating the man-sit. These are very low prim and in that lovely hospital green, too!


This coffee table, which wasn't in any of the hunts, is made from an old (very old) window and books (perfect for me!) but it was only 50L and I wasn't able to find a tip jar so I bought it and some seating. When someone is this generous, I hate to just scoop the loot and run, so I usually look around for a tip jar or something small to buy.
Hints for all the current hunts are in the little man outside the store; just click on him. Everything is very easy to find. Not pictured, but also very cute, was a vintage pants outfit in black with a coordinating bolero jacket (if that's not a redundancy). The dress Kathy is wearing is from some other nameless hunt at another location - she's so vague about stuff.

The Perils of Amphibiaphilia

One of the first things you must learn about finding your Prince Charming ...

... Is that you shouldn't be holding him in your hand when you make that all-important transformative kiss. Here Lludmila has been nearly squashed by her handsome prince.

Lludmila tenderly gathers her prince in her arms and takes him off somewhere to recover ...

... which he plainly does very quickly. And he likes what he sees.

"Mmmmrrrgggglllmmmmm!" exclaims little Lludmila (which, translated from Zombish, means "But we come from different worlds! You're a prince and I ... I'm decomposing! It would never work. Your parents would object. Society just isn't ready."

The prince convinces her that they can beat the odds, make it work, make beautiful music together ... blah blah blah ...

And then, just like a man, after he's gotten what he wanted, he scarpers leaving sad little Lludmila to lament, "Nnnnngggggllllmmmmfff. Bbbbllllddddfffff!"


Which, translated from Zombish, means, "I'll kill the [Zomb uncertain]! But at least I have this fabulous dress from Dany French Touch."

Note: Both outfits are the group gift from Dany French Touch. While Lludmila receives her fabulous creations from DFT through the group, Cal [and many thanks to Cal for being so patient during this photoshoot while I dug through my vast inventory and at one point pushed Lludmila out of the skybox, letting her fall 350 meters and didn't realize it for quite a while because I was still scrolling through the inventory - Yer a peach, Cal!] had to wait two hours for his letter to crop up in the new lucky chair. He should have joined the DFT group when it was still free. Now it's 150L - although you make that up with the first set of outfits that arrives. DFT is very generous also with their dollarbies. If Cal has any requests for Dany, it's to put more regular seating around because his typist got very tired watching him stand there all that time!

Decomposition Notebook -

I feel like a real fashion blogger now! A real content creator/artist has asked me to vet a new skin for zombies. The skin Lludmila wears all the time and that has made me so happy for the past two years came from Absentia. Recently, Jupiter Vale asked her subbers for ideas and feedback and so I thought I'd put in my notecard with its two lindens' of considered opinion ("OMG like I TOTES [heart] UR stuff!!!!!") and, of all things, she replied! And sent me a new skin! And asked for my feedback!
I had logged on early in the morning because I'd missed the cut-off for the Midnight Mania board that was giving out the free pole dance (I know, I know, pole dances are slutty - I didn't say I'd deploy it anywhere!) and there was a gift skin from Jupiter at Absentia for me to evaluate! I only had time to rush to [insert name of store that's actually having a stupendous sale right now where everything, even the 1200L mini-cave, is going for 100-199L] to slap the MM board, still wearing the 18th century gown and powdered wig from the night before at Grizzy's (have I mentioned Grizzy's Cafe before?) before heading off to work, but -
I threw on the skin and, in the relative privacy of my skybox, removed all my clothes to drink it all in. Awww, shhhhhhugar! My clothes wouldn't come completely off and I had to get to work, delaying my leisurely but expert critique until afternoon. See photo below. For some reason, Blogger now gives me crummy photos, but if you click on them, they sharpen up something wonderful. No, really. Try it.
Lludmila in the new skin looks more like she's intentionally green. If I had a dollar for everyone who thought I was just melanin free ... I mean, get a decent graphics card, people! The darker green with the pink tinge looks like a zombie version of a tan.

Lludmila tests the new skin ... and, umm, gravity.

Jupiter did some tidying as well as enhancing the skin color. Note below how much smoother the shadow on the jaw is. This was something that always bothered me a little ... but only when I was looking up at Lludmila, which was not very often, being 4'8" tall. But I recall thinking, if only that shading on the jaw could be smoothed out. It looks like she tried to hide her jowls with make-up. She also made the eye sockets a bit less dark, which gave the opportunity to make nicer eyebrows - which don't signify in this photo because the hair is in the way. You'll just have to trust me on this. I thought the lips were just a little too light - making Lludmila's rather large Sally Kellerman-ish mouth almost disappear. We can't have that. I've asked for a little more color there. [Gosh! It's like being a Real Person, or somfin', ordering an artist around - "You there - more lip color!"]

The Jawline - before and aftah.

Alas, we can't give Lludmila cleavage - but, stickler for decorum that she is (note the modest application of pasties), would she even want to show cleavage? I mean that cleavage that's all the rage now, where it looks like a successful application of eyeshadow to suggest that the mammaries are siamese twin cantaloupes.

Torso comparison - breasts are slightly more defined. Ahem.

And is this really all about Lludmila, anyway? I'm sure Jupiter (or, "Jup" as I call her now - "Hey, Jup! More lip color, babe! Get on the stick!") plans to market the final product to all SL residents with undead leanings, not just me. In fact, her intent is to portray some real decomposition. [/me shudders with delight.] To this end, I have tried the skin on some of my other avatars to see how it translates.

Clockwise from upper left: Lludmila, Kathy, Plushmilla/Tammy, and Jane Doe. Not shown: pubic hair - 'cause there ain't none. Great, now Lludmila can "safely" wear those plunging pubeline gowns.

I think it's brilliant. Well, it will be with a little more lip color.

Lluscious Llobster

Lludmila was just wandering around Vintage Village, minding her own beeswax, when she found a free-range freebie at Allegorie. It's worth wandering around Vintage Village and the other outlying areas just to look at the textures and the builds, but if you can pick up a freebie as well - Bonus! This little number that makes Lludmila llook llike a llobster is called Paris 1900. There are 129 prims just in the bustle regions and, as you can see, it flounces divinely! The hat comes with it but, as you can't find feet in all those flounces, it doesn't need shoes so you don't have to worry about finding any that match. That's Lludmila's Fashion Tip for the Day.

Sun, Fun, and UN-slutty

If you are as concerned about not being slutty as Lludmila is, you might choose to eschew the thongs and string bikinis rampant in the virtual world. The red and white plaid bikini from Absentia (home of the fab zombie skin) has an adorable top, but the bikini bottom is making her slightly nervous. Fortunately, it does not thong in the back. The striped bikini came in a pack with many colors from artilleri, home of many good things. Note what great coverage is provided by the pantie (now large enough to support that title). The flip-flops, by the way, are color change (handy with a large set of colorful bikinis) and always free at the Vignette shoe outlet, In Her Shoes. I highly recommend Vignette as a stop for newbies. Got some great vintage hair at the hair location.


If you want to get some coverage, go for vintage. These two examples were recent freebies from Doux Couture and Aqua. I had to play a lot of spider solitaire hanging out at Doux Couture to get that vintage bikini in peach! And what's more, I had to beat out two other people in a wildcard round. The suit on the right from Aqua was described as "teal" - but I call it green. The pix here are so fuzzy, I wonder how anyone can tell. Not sure why that's happening. I apologize for the quality of the uploaded photos.

This bikini was labeled as "pink." It looks purple to me and matches nicely with the flip-flops in purple. Lludmila loves purple and it looks good on her skin. This suit from the Indie Rose Midnight Mania board is not too scanty. It covers the crack in back, anyway. The Lani blue one-piece currently free also at Indie Rose shows another way to accentuate the "peaches" without exposing nearly everything - it boasts a frill. This is seen more usually on babies and little girls' behinds nowadays, but this blogger remembers when the vestigial petticoat was more common for older bathers. Frill on the bottom and a rubber swimcap with damn flowers all over it. Now, that's modesty! Ha!(If you think the next descent into sluttiness for bikinis will be translucency, it was already being done in the 1970s. The white suits were totally opaque until you got in the water.)

Halloween In July

Visited Halloween today for a little Halloween in July. There was a rumor about some prim-toed sandals for 25L (that don't match Lludmila's zombie feet - plus she prefers flats, being 4'8" tall) but also a boot hunt going on in the cute haunted house.



Being a connoisseur of haunted houses, Lludmila went just for the experience. She gives it a thumbs up for originality - it's very small but has some nice features. More pix of Halloween are at my Flickr page.

There's also a cute pair of skully high-tops in the mini-enchanted grove which shrank down nicely for Lludmila's size one feet. I've made her calves sort of muscle-y, so prim boots don't fit her so well. Good thing she prefers flats. She gives all the tall prim boots to Kathy.



There's more to see at Halloween - to supply your creepy Halloween needs (never too soon to plan!) and a nice little skiff to ride in to the pirate's cove (four speeds available). The cove unfortunately abuts a private area and if you accidentally run into that, you're ejected. Oh well! On to more shopping elsewhere!